Course Overview
This Initial Counter Terrorist Search 4-week training course has been designed by CBRN Academy to support police, military, and security personnel to protect potential targets (persons, vehicles or venues) from a terrorist attack using firearms or explosive devices. The training is based upon international best practices and standards and has been successfully used to protect potential targets since the 1980s.
Participants will learn the importance of systematic search procedures, detailed planning and identification of weapons and the parts of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). Participants will be trained in various skills to conduct defensive (protection) and offensive (evidence gathering) counter-terrorist searches.
Course Objectives and outcomes.
This course aims to train people to conduct offensive and defensive systematic counter-terrorist searches. Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
· Explain the current threat.
· Describe the ‘actions on a find’.
· Explain how to conduct systematic searches of people.
· Conduct offensive and defensive vehicle searches.
· Conduct both Area and Route searches.
· Plan a search operation.
Course Outlines
Module One:
• Threat (Theory) – Local, National and International threats.
• Methods of attack – Types of IED’s, parts of IED’s, Weapons (Theory).
• Searching People – Types of searches: Cursory, Detailed, Intimate. Use of Technology (Theory & Practical).
• Offensive Vehicle Search – Depriving terrorists/criminals of their resources, gathering evidence for a prosecution, gathering intelligence (Theory & Practical).
• Defensive Vehicle Search – Protecting venues, roadblocks/checks (Theory & Practical).
Module Two:
• Offensive Building Search – Depriving terrorists/criminals of their resources, gathering evidence for a prosecution, gathering intelligence (Theory & Practical).
• Defensive Building Search – Protecting venues for events/visits, Island sites, search & screening of vehicles and visitors (Theory & Practical).
• Planning Search Operations – Intelligence gathering, writing operational orders for search operations, logistics and administration (Theory).
Module Three:
• Area Search – Systematic searching of open areas to locate terrorist/criminal hides (Theory & Practical).
• Route Search – Various methods to protect routes used by VIP’s/Convoys from terrorist attacks (Theory & Practical).
Module Four:
• Written assessments.
• Assessed Practical Exercises of all knowledge areas. This will take the form of planning and practical exercise, including the writing of an operational order.
N.B – Additional modules may be added on request (such as Mortar Base Plate assessments, MANPAD protection, body recovery, bomb scene search, convoy planning).
Intended recipients and min max numbers
This course is suitable for military and security personnel who will be in security teams who are protecting VIP’s or venues. It is possible to adapt the training to suit the needs of private security teams involved in protecting venues.
The participants’ learning experience will be enhanced if a variety of venues are available for the search exercises.
All students should be physically fit and not suffer from claustrophobia.
Course Certification
Your CBRN Academy instructor will issue a signed certificate of training completion to all successful participants at the end of the course. To qualify for the official Certificate, the student must attend and complete all assessments and score 80% or more.
Course Methodology
Learning and development will be facilitated through practical sessions, scenarios, classroom lessons, case studies, videos, presentations, participant engagement and equipment familiarisation.
